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Huawei Releases Industry’s First Data Center Switch Built for the AI Era: CloudEngine 16800

Jan 09, 2019

[Beijing, China, January 9, 2019] Today Huawei unveiled the industry’s first data center switch built for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era –– CloudEngine 16800, at its network product launch event for Spring 2019 themed “A CloudEngine Built for the AI Era”. Huawei defines three characteristics of data center switches in the AI era: embedded AI chip, 48-port 400GE line card per slot, and the capability to evolve to the autonomous driving network, and innovatively incorporates AI technologies into data center switches. The pervasive use of AI will help customers accelerate intelligent transformation.

Kevin Hu, President of Huawei Network Product Line, releases the CloudEngine 16800

According to Huawei’s Global Industry Vision (GIV) 2025, the AI adoption rate will increase from 16% in 2015 to 86% in 2025. The capability of leveraging AI to reshape business models, make decisions, and improve customer experiences will become a key driving force. Kevin Hu, President of Huawei Network Product Line, said, “A fully connected, intelligent world is fast approaching. Data centers become the core of the new infrastructures such as 5G and AI. Huawei will first introduce AI technology to data center switches, leading data center networks from the cloud era to the AI era.”

With the advent of the AI era, the AI computing power is affected by the performance of data center networks, which is becoming a key bottleneck of the AI commercial process. On a traditional Ethernet, the AI computing power of data centers can only reach up to 50 percent due to a packet loss rate of 1‰. At the same time, the industry expects that the annual volume of data worldwide will increase from 10 zettabytes in 2018 to 180 zettabytes (180 billion terabytes) in 2025. Existing 100GE data center networks will be unable to handle the predicted data flood. In addition, traditional manual O&M methods will be unable to meet requirements as the number of data center servers continues to increase and the computing network, storage network, and data network become converged. It is therefore imperative that innovative technologies be developed and introduced to improve the intelligent O&M capability.

“The data center switch built for the AI era has three characteristics,” said Kevin Hu, namely “embedded AI chip, 48-port 400GE line card per slot, and the capability to evolve to the autonomous driving network.”

Industry’s first data center switch with an embedded AI chip, reaching an AI computing power of 100%

The CloudEngine 16800, the first data center switch in the industry to leverage the power of an embedded high-performance AI chip, uses the innovative iLossless algorithm to implement auto-sensing and auto-optimization of the traffic model, thereby realizing lower latency and higher throughput based on zero packet loss. The CloudEngine 16800 overcomes the computing power limitations caused by packet loss on the traditional Ethernet, increasing the AI computing power from 50 percent to 100 percent and improving the data storage Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) by 30 percent.

Industry’s highest density 48-port 400GE line card per slot, meeting the requirements for 5-fold traffic growth in the AI era

The CloudEngine 16800 boasts an upgraded hardware switching platform, and with its orthogonal architecture, overcomes multiple technical challenges such as high-speed signal transmission, heat dissipation, and power supply. It provides the industry’s highest density 48-port 400GE line card per slot and the industry’s largest 768-port 400GE switching capacity (five times the industry average), meeting the traffic multiplication requirements in the AI era. In addition, the power consumption per bit is reduced by 50%, ensuring greener operation.

Enabling the autonomous driving network, identifying faults in seconds, and automatically locating faults in minutes

The CloudEngine 16800 is embedded with an AI chip, greatly enhancing the intelligence level of devices deployed at the network edge and enabling the switch to implement local inference and rapid decision-making in real time. With CloudEngine 16800’s local intelligence and the centralized network analyzer FabricInsight, the distributed AI O&M architecture identifies faults in seconds and automatically locates the faults in minutes, helping to accelerate the advent of autonomous driving network. Furthermore, this architecture greatly improves the flexibility and deployability of O&M systems.

Leon Wang, General Manager of Huawei Data Center Network Domain, said, “Huawei CloudEngine series data center switches have been successfully launched into commercial use for more than 6000 customers, helping digital transformation of industry customers such as finance, Internet, and carrier customers. Huawei launched the CloudEngine 16800 to help customers accelerate intelligent transformation, achieve pervasive use of AI, and jointly build a fully connected and intelligent world.”

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2019/1/huawei-data-center-switch-built-cloudengine-16800

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei to invest US$100B in reconstructing network system

Xinhua, January 18, 2019

People pass by the Huawei stand during the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2016. [Photo / Xinhua]

Chinese technology firm Huawei said on Thursday that it plans to invest 100 billion U.S. dollars to rebuild its network system in the next five years.

Huawei will increase its investment to achieve four goals -- minimalising the network; minimalising the transaction models of network; achieving utmost cybersecurity; and the privacy protection of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) meeting the European standards, said Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., at a group interview in Shenzhen.

"We plan to invest greatly on research and development in the next five years to build the world's best network," said Ren.

He also stressed that Huawei would always take cybersecurity and privacy protection as the company's top guiding principle. "We raise our awareness of cybersecurity to such a high level because we are facing the future of cloud computing era underpinned by cybersecurity," said Ren.

Recently, the company has opened its advanced labs and production lines for media visits.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2019-01/18/content_74385158.htm

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Huawei to invest US$100B in reconstructing network system

Xinhua, January 18, 2019

People pass by the Huawei stand during the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2016. [Photo / Xinhua]

Chinese technology firm Huawei said on Thursday that it plans to invest 100 billion U.S. dollars to rebuild its network system in the next five years.

Huawei will increase its investment to achieve four goals -- minimalising the network; minimalising the transaction models of network; achieving utmost cybersecurity; and the privacy protection of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) meeting the European standards, said Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., at a group interview in Shenzhen.

"We plan to invest greatly on research and development in the next five years to build the world's best network," said Ren.

He also stressed that Huawei would always take cybersecurity and privacy protection as the company's top guiding principle. "We raise our awareness of cybersecurity to such a high level because we are facing the future of cloud computing era underpinned by cybersecurity," said Ren.

Recently, the company has opened its advanced labs and production lines for media visits.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2019-01/18/content_74385158.htm

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Huawei Mate20 Pro Super microspur photos: Walking Microscope
2019-01-18 15:07:23

https://www.toutiao.com/a6647728324523065863/
Huawei Mate20 Pro is currently the most powerful comprehensive flagship phone of Huawei. Although it has not been successful in DxO, the feedback from users is very consistent: the camera is powerful and invincible.

As the second three-shot mobile phone of Huawei brand, Huawei Mate20 Pro's Yuba three-shot is impressive, changing the black and white color telephoto of Huawei P20 Pro to become a telephoto wide-angle super wide-angle match, retaining the IMX600's CMOS. The author has already shown the super-wide-angle lens of Huawei Mate20 Pro, 3x lossless zoom, 5x hybrid zoom and 10x zoom. The effect is very good.

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Mobile phone screen under super microspur

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Japanese media analysis why the United States is afraid of Huawei: Huawei's research and development capabilities surpass any US company
Reference message network 01-18 11:28
https://m.haiwainet.cn/ttc/3541083/2019/0118/content_31482806_1.html?tt_group_id=6647674543462679043

Reference News Network reported on January 18th that Japan's "Choice" monthly magazine published an article in the January issue of "The Real Reasons for American Fear of Huawei", saying that the Trump administration's attack on China's Huawei Technologies Company outlines the "US-China economic war" A “strangle” campaign launched by the state for private enterprises is advancing.

The article said that not only the United States, Australia and Japan and other allies announced their ban on the use of Huawei's products, but also blocked Huawei's access to parts from the United States' allies. These behaviors are worse than the alleged charges of Huawei’s executive Meng Xizhou when he was detained in Canada. Obviously, the United States is afraid of Huawei. This is because in the upcoming dramatic "digitalization of war" process, the United States has no enterprise that can compete with Huawei's research and development capabilities.

According to the article, at the 2018 Berlin International Consumer Electronics Show, Huawei released the Kirin 980 chip for smartphones. The Kirin 980 uses the world's most advanced 7-nanometer integrated circuit process technology, which greatly enhances the machine learning and image processing capabilities of artificial intelligence, while also saving a lot of power.

According to the article, Haisi is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei and supplies only to Huawei. For a long time, Huawei has never stepped into the military field, focusing only on technology research and development in the civilian sector. However, in the view of the Trump administration, Huawei is likely to seize the lead before the US military industry, and is the most vigilant enterprise.

So how does Huawei have such a high level of R&D capabilities?

According to the article, Huawei currently has 180,000 employees worldwide, of which 45% are researchers. The annual R&D investment accounts for about 15% of sales, and the R&D investment invested in 2017 is as high as 1.4 trillion yen (about 87 billion yuan – this net note). Most of them are used in the fields of semiconductor, 5G communication and artificial intelligence. The investment of Huawei has surpassed the entire semiconductor industry in the United States including Intel and Qualcomm. It is said that Apple and Google are the only companies that can be singled out with Huawei in terms of R&D investment. The Trump administration is highly alert to Huawei, which has such strong R&D investment capabilities and top talent in China.

The article pointed out that for the second consecutive year in 2016 and 2017, Huawei is the most popular employment destination for Tsinghua University graduates from China's top universities. Before 2015, the most popular among students were state-owned monopolies such as State Grid and China Mobile, as well as US companies such as Apple, Google and Goldman Sachs. Today, Huawei has attracted the best talents in China with its generous treatment and bright prospects.

According to the article, in addition to the United States and Japan, more than half of the world's major airports use Huawei's products, which is a leader in the field of "smart aviation." In the field of subway operation, power system and renewable energy management, the “smart media” field integrating TV, network and traditional print media covers the field of “smart campus” such as university lectures, distance learning and R&D assistance. Huawei is ahead of the competition. Other companies around the world. In terms of the infrastructure application system represented by the smart city mastered by IBM in the United States, Huawei now has the strongest strength. This is because Huawei's system has a higher degree of completion through its extensive experience of continuously meeting China's domestic needs.

The article believes that the top US manufacturing companies led by IBM and GM have become unprofitable due to fierce competition, thus shifting their business focus from producing products to more profitable service industries. This is the paradox that the United States faces today: the more top-level manufacturing, the more dependent on China in production. The Trump administration has clamored for the factory to return to the United States, and because the increasing hollowing out of manufacturing has become a hidden danger in the security field. Even if robot soldiers using artificial intelligence are introduced, even if the United States is responsible for design and trial production, it will eventually have to rely on China for mass production. This is the reality facing the United States. "From design to hardware production, software development and system construction, Huawei has integrated all production links, and it is indeed a company worthy of fear." This is the White House's evaluation of Huawei.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei fully confident about its product sales despite headwinds

CGTN
2019-01-18

Huawei is confident that Western countries will have to buy its products because of their competitiveness, the Chinese telecom giant's CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei told CCTV in an exclusive interview on Thursday.

"When you have superior products, there is no need to worry about buyers, and I have never worried about that," Ren replied when asked about how to cope with some countries' restrictions and bans on the company.

Ren said Huawei is the best in the area of 5G, and the only manufacturer in the world that is capable of equipping 5G base stations with the state-of-the-art microwave technology, which perfectly suits Western countries where scattered villas are ubiquitous and are in need of high-speed information services.

Ren Zhengfei, CEO and founder of Huawei, speaks with CCTV on January 17 in Shenzhen./CCTV Photo

"Of course they can choose not to buy our equipment, but that means they will have to pay much higher prices to build other network services," he told media in another group interview on Thursday.

Until last December, Huawei said it had secured more than 25 commercial contracts for 5G, the largest in the world, and has shipped more than 10,000 base stations for the fifth generation of mobile communications.

When asked about his daughter Meng Wanzhou's detention in December, Ren said he's confident the case would be resolved through legal channels.

Meng, the company's chief financial officer, was arrested on December 1 in Canada for alleged violation of sanctions on Iran and then released on bail on December 12. She still awaits a hearing on extradition to the U.S. in February.

After her arrest, Huawei said in a statement that the company was unaware of any wrongdoing by Meng, and the firm complied with all applicable laws.

Ren told CCTV that he had not seen his daughter for a long time, but was not too worried. He said they had phone calls, during which he told jokes to her.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f3041544d32457a6333566d54/share_p.html

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1088282012077633536

Global Times✔@globaltimesnews

JUST IN: #Huawei unveils the worlds first #5G chipsets called Tiangang on Thursday in Beijing, fully embracing the next generation of wireless technologies.
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11:47 AM - Jan 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/x/status/1088285217431769089

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Balong 5000 - Huawei's 5G baseband chip.
1st multi-mode 5G chip, supporting 3G, 4G and 5G & supporting NSA and SA architecture & TDD and FDD spectrums.

5G(sub 6GHz) + Wifi6 = Huawei 5G CPE Pro router

Huawei's 5G foldable - MWC 2019

11:59 AM - Jan 24, 2019

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1088282012077633536

Global Times✔@globaltimesnews

JUST IN: #Huawei unveils the worlds first #5G chipsets called Tiangang on Thursday in Beijing, fully embracing the next generation of wireless technologies.
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11:47 AM - Jan 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/x/status/1088285217431769089

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Huawei to unveil 5G foldable smartphone

(China Daily) 14:59, January 26, 2019

Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business group, introduces the firm's 5G modem Balong 5000 at a news conference in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Move represents latest push in fueling consumers' interest to upgrade devices

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will unveil its first commercial 5G foldable smartphone in February, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to overtake Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to be the world's largest smartphone vendor.

Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business group, said the foldable handset will be equipped with its 5G modem Balong 5000, which the company described as the most powerful 5G modem in the world.

Yu said Balong 5000 is the world's first 5G modem that fully supports both non-standalone and standalone 5G network architecture, which can greatly widen its use scenarios.

Analysts said the modem is designed to compete with the US chip giant Qualcomm Inc's X50 modem in performance. Huawei underlined that it will not sell Balong 5000 as a standalone product, but just use it in its own smartphones.

The 5G foldable smartphone, to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, is Huawei's latest push to fuel consumers' interest to upgrade their devices after the global smartphone market hits a saturation point.

The move also came after Huawei's consumer business posted a record $52 billion in sales in 2018, driven by the strong demand for its premium smartphones. The company shipped more than 200 million units of smartphones worldwide last year and surpassed Apple Inc as the world's second largest smartphone vendor.

On Thursday, Huawei, the world's largest telecom equipment maker, also unveiled its first chipset for 5G base stations. The chip, named as Tiangang, can support a bandwidth of 200 megabytes and reduce the weight of a 5G base station by half.

Ding Yun, president of Huawei's telecom carrier business group, said the company has shipped over 25,000 5G base stations globally, up from the figure of 10,000 it disclosed in late December.

"We have so far acquired 30 5G contracts, with 18 from Europe, nine from the Middle East and three from the Asia-Pacific region," Ding said.

Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of the Mobile China Alliance, an industry association, said despite the difficulties Huawei is facing in overseas markets, including cyber security allegations, the company is steadily gaining clients, with more 5G base stations shipped.

"The trust between Huawei and some telecom carriers can help the former better navigate the choppy waters. It also reflects Huawei's technological superiority," Wang said.

The company's 5G foldable smartphone plan came after its rival Xiaomi Corp unveiled an engineering gadget on Wednesday, which can be bent and rolled to function both as a smartphone and a tablet.

"This year will see the first batch of 5G smartphones and foldable handsets respectively. Those which can bring the two together will turn out to be highly competitive in the market," said Fu Liang, an independent telecom analyst.

China Mobile, the country's largest telecom carrier, said in December that the first batch of 5G smartphones will be priced at above 8,000 yuan ($1,166), and more than 30 commercial 5G devices are likely to hit the market in 2019.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2019/0126/c90000-9541443.html

 

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[TaiShang]

Huawei Steps Into Smart TV Market

By Han Wei / Jan 30, 2019 04:22 AM / Business & Tech

Photo: VCG


Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. is planning a foray into the smart TV market this year, several sources close to the company told Caixin.

A TV model using Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is likely to be released in the second quarter this year, one person said. The company declined to comment.

Sources said Huawei has been gearing up efforts for the TV business since last year, recruiting talent from established TV makers like Skyworth and TCL. Huawei’s TV business team now has about 300 people, one person said.

Another person close to the matter said Huawei has set up a partnership with display-panel manufacturer BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. for panel supply and TV production.

Analysts said Huawei is pursuing the TV business as part of its strategy to combine the next-generation 5G telecom technology with artificial intelligence and connect everything with the internet.

Huawei has remained upbeat on its growth, setting a 2019 sales target at $125.9 billion, including $65 billion from selling smartphones, tablets and other devices to consumers.

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei Asks Suppliers To Move Production Out Of US: Nikkei

by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/29/2019

The sweeping indictment against Huawei and its CFO Meng Wanzhou unveiled by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Monday has elevated the feud between the US and the world's largest telecoms equipment provider (and second largest maker of smartphones) to absurd new heights.

And while officials from Huawei and Beijing have denounced the charges as anti-competitive and "politically motivated", Huawei is apparently already bracing for the other shoe to drop: According to a report by Nikkei, the tech giant has asked suppliers to consider moving some of their production outside the US in case the Congress of the DOJ adopt a ban on American-made parts being sold to the chipmaker. With the memory of the near-demise of ZTE still fresh in its memory, the company has made the request based on the expectation that an order of a full-scale ban on semiconductors and other critical equipment by President Trump is imminent.

The companies asked including Taiwan's ASE Technology Holding, King Yuan Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductors, among others.

In a bid to minimize this risk, Huawei has informed suppliers such as Taiwan's ASE Technology Holding and King Yuan Electronics, its top chip packaging and testing providers, that it wants to relocate most production to sites in mainland China, industry sources told the Nikkei Asian Review.

Huawei has also talked with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker, about moving some chip production to a site in the Chinese city of Nanjing, sources told Nikkei.

Notably, Huawei shares many of the same suppliers as Apple Inc. And the uncertainties that have been introduced by the US's campaign against the telecoms giant have made it virtually impossible for some of these companies to adequately assemble their business plans for the coming year.

Many Asian suppliers hoped that Huawei would be their most valuable customer providing growth for 2019 as the smartphone market matures quickly, but those assumptions now appear riddled with uncertainties, according to supply chain sources familiar with the matter.

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The charges against Huawei and Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested in Canada last month on the request of the U.S., have raised the prospect of further earnings downgrades by suppliers after a raft of reductions due to the slowdown in the global smartphone market.

"We don't know how to make business plans for 2019 after Huawei's CFO Meng was arrested," an industry source told the Nikkei Asian Review. "It brought so many risks and uncertainties."

A ban on selling to Huawei would be a "blow" to producers of semiconductors and other components: "But there's very little we could do to change that" they said.

Some suppliers are even looking into the terms of their business interruption insurance to see if it covers "political factors."

ASE Technology Holding, the world's biggest chip packaging and testing company, is looking into the terms of its business interruption insurance to see whether they include disruption owing to political factors, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The chairman of iPhone assembler Pegatron, Tung Tzu-hsien, told reporters on Jan. 22: "Over the past year, the impact of international political risks on the global tech industry has been unprecedented. It is the greatest that I can recall."

"We didn't have to care so much when we produced notebook computers, smartphones or integrated circuits in the past. But now we have to be extremely careful to comply with local laws in each country to avoid stepping on mines," Tung said on the sidelines of a tech forum.

Shih Po-jun, an analyst at Taipei-based think tank Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute, said the disruption will only continue.

"The U.S. crackdown on Chinese tech - of which Huawei is the most important representative - will not stop here and is likely to have a snowball effect on other Asian suppliers and on the customer end as well," Shih said. "For those who rely heavily on Huawei or China for their business, they are subject to higher political risks now."

Despite the Trump administration's insistence that the indictment won't affect trade talks with China, every analyst quoted by Nikkei said they don't see how that's possible.

"Any relief for the Chinese national champion will likely come at a steep price, and the issue seems set to take a central role in the ongoing U.S.-China trade talks," Gavekal Research tech analyst Dan Wang said in a daily note following the U.S. indictment.

Not only has the US threatened to ban sales of Huawei products and equipment, but a US-backed campaign to convince allies and foreign telecoms firms to push Huawei out of their markets has born fruit in recent months. China's largest private company, generating revenue of $100 billion in 2018. It is also China's top employer, with 180,000 workers globally, and insiders say the company is worried about losing its dominance in Europe, where it has received dozens of contracts to build 5G networks.

Earlier on Tuesday, it was reported that Huawei would be arraigned on some of the charges in a Seattle court on Feb. 28, just days before the deadline for US-China trade talks. We imagine suppliers, who are already reeling from Apple's latest iPhone sales flop, will be watching the proceedings very closely.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...cyJFti5SuGmK9sbR0EXur5CzutMbCfayux0sIaz5YpPYc

 

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How China Mobile Zhejiang became a pacesetter in 5G transport networks

Jan 03, 2019 By Diao Xingling, Huang Haifeng, Communications World

Already a 4G leader in China, China Mobile Zhejiang is demonstrating outstanding performance in the 5G transport field. Together with Huawei, it recently completed the Phase-II pilot construction of its 5G transport network. Supporting up to 120 gNodeBs, it’s the largest network of its type in China. It also leads in terms of 5G features, including Segment Routing and FlexE.

High network requirements


Compared to 3G and 4G, 5G delivers higher bandwidth, many more connections, and lower latency: it’s at least 10 times faster than 4G, its connection density is expected to reach 1 million per square kilometer, and low latency is required by applications like autonomous driving.

Shen Gangwei, Vice GM for the Department of Planning and Technology of China Mobile Zhejiang, believes that these requirements in major service scenarios greatly impact transport networks and access and aggregation equipment rooms, increasing pressure on operators.

5G’s higher service requirements

From the perspective of wireless and core network evolution, 5G places new requirements on the transport network in terms of bandwidth, latency, synchronization, flexibility, network slicing, and service provisioning.

First, the transport network requires more flexible and agile connections, which necessitates SDN for hierarchical management. Second, the need for rapid service provisioning and deployment requires network slicing to build a full-service, all-scenario 5G transport network. Third, the distribution of 5G service units, centralized units, and distributed units is significantly different from 4G. Therefore, L3 functions will need to be moved downwards on the future transport network. Finally, the bandwidth capabilities of 5G networks will increase continuously. Currently, PTN devices mainly use GE and 10GE interfaces and can support 100GE interfaces. In the 5G era, the bandwidth will evolve to 10GE, 25GE, 200GE, and 400GE at different network layers. This tremendous bandwidth growth will drive the birth of new technologies.

In the early stage of development, Shen says that, "China Mobile Zhejiang will expand and upgrade its live PTN. In the future, we will introduce new technologies and devices such as SPTN."

The key step

The transport network is the foundation of 5G development. However, networks aren’t built in a day and resources must be well-prepared and planned, lessons that China Mobile Zhejiang learned during the successful construction of its 4G networks. According to Shen, "The earlier we conduct research and the more transport resources we prepare, the faster the network construction, and the stronger the network bearer capabilities will be."

According to 5G site construction requirements and technical standards, the impact of 5G on the transport network is mainly felt in the metro network. "We started 5G research and began preparing basic resources in 2016,” says Shen. “Our research focuses on physical resources such as access and aggregation equipment rooms, rack space, power environment, auxiliary power supplies, and optical fiber resources on the metro network, as well as the network environment."

The operator started to prepare network resources for access and aggregation equipment rooms in 2017, conducting multiple surveys on live networks and collecting large amounts of data. And this paid off – a bottleneck in network was identified.

China Mobile Zhejiang used its findings to consolidate and optimize its resources during 2018, including equipment rooms, optical fibers, power, and auxiliary power supplies.

Building a "5G City"

Constructing a network model and doing theoretical research are far from enough to put a network into commercial use. Pilot tests on the live network are also required.

China Mobile Zhejiang has a unique advantage in live-network testing. Hangzhou is among the first batch of cities where China Mobile carried out 5G field trials, covering multiple scenarios such as scale tests, application development and incubation, service experience promotion, and 5G agile R&D.

Its 5G field tests achieved good results and, on the eve of World Telecommunications Day 2018, China Mobile Zhejiang officially launched its 5G City plan, revealing that it will be partnering with Huawei to transform Hangzhou into an innovation hub and pilot city for 5G networks, with continuous coverage available across vertical industries. Plans include an E2E 5G trial network with more than 100 sites by the end of 2018.

The 5G field test was an E2E verification that covered the wireless, transport and core networks. Shen explains that, "The field trial helps us find the shortcomings of our theoretical research. We’ve since improved our model and completed a new round of planning for transport network construction. We’ll work with Huawei and other suppliers to increase the scope of testing and verification, and continue to improve the model in the next stage."

When it comes to planning a 5G transport network, he states that 5G is currently in the phase of testing live networks and researching service applications. In the early stage, 10G to 100G will meet the access requirements of a small number of gNodeBs under an overall strategy of expanding the live network’s capacity. Doing so includes upgrading the aggregation nodes and access rings, starting with the management and control system, and then gradually moving the L3 functions downwards.

In the mid-phase, China Mobile Zhejiang will consider network-wide capacity expansion according to 5G service volumes and network traffic. In hotspot areas and core urban areas, it will deploy 200G or 400G interfaces to meet E2E capacity expansion.

SDN, L3-to-edge deployment, and network simplification will be almost fully completed at this stage.

In the long-term, over 400 Gbps of traffic will be introduced at the core layer to address rapid traffic growth. China Mobile Zhejiang will adjust and upgrade the capacity of the boards and devices on its live networks, and introduce cost-effective new network construction technologies to pave the way for transport networks.

A flourishing 5G ecosystem

5G networks carry a large number of service applications, the development of which needs to be in sync with network construction.

At present, 5G standards have basically been determined, some technologies have been verified, and 5G service applications are proliferating, especially IoT applications. However, 5G field trials suggest that more research and testing is needed on 5G terminals, equipment manufacturing, and live-network capacity expansion. Moreover, continuous network improvements are needed to meet the requirements of high bandwidth, massive connections, and low latency.

As well as its network trials, China Mobile Zhejiang has promoted the development of the 5G industry and applications, especially services related to manufacturing, lifestyle, society, culture, and IoT applications.

In 2016, China Mobile and Zhejiang Provincial Government jointly built a 5G Joint Innovation Center and a center for 5G technologies and service applications that supports infrastructure construction and 5G technical standards. It also launched the trial commercial use of 5G products and services.

In 2017, the operator and local government worked with various enterprises to set up the 5G New Technology Research Joint Lab to promote a complete 5G industry chain, covering chips, algorithms, network devices, and terminals, aiming to position the lab as a benchmark for 5G technology research in China. On the eve of World Telecommunications Day 2018, China Mobile Zhejiang and several dozen organizations, including operators, device vendors such as Huawei, research institutes, and major companies in various industries, jointly established the 5G Industry Alliance of Zhejiang Province.

IoT and 5G

China Mobile Zhejiang has already deployed NB-IoT applications, such as remote monitoring and meter reading, with its NB-IoT coverage powering some of the largest-scale projects in the country. In fact, the operator’s IoT connections have already exceeded the number of its mobile and fixed subscribers.

China Mobile Zhejiang's work in the 5G industry will also promote the development of 5G transport networks. "We will closely cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and China Mobile Group in terms of the scale and progress of 5G transport network construction,” says Shen.

China Mobile Zhejiang is ahead of China Mobile as a whole in the construction and preparation of network infrastructure resources, especially those for transport networks. And Shen hopes that Hangzhou will become a national 5G leader.

China Mobile Zhejiang's next step will be to expand its 5G trial network to cover multiple areas, such as West Lake, the Asian Games Stadium, IoT Town, and Zhejiang University. In addition, it will promote research into applications such as industrial Internet, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Smart City, and VR/AR, as well as demonstrations of these technologies.

Thanks to its fearless persistence and planning in the 5G field, the operator has already made a name for itself as a 5G leader in China, and plans to keep it that way.

https://www.huawei.com/en/about-hua...msvaUEnKiHFsGTlmdCIoO-c5wUIlgqJrvtAt2TdYGyYO0

 

[TaiShang]

09-Feb-2019

Thailand launches Huawei 5G test bed
CGTN

Thailand on Friday launched a Huawei Technologies 5G test bed, the tech giant's first such platform in Southeast Asia, amid rising scrutiny some Western countries set on the company.

The test site is located in Chonburi, the heart of Thailand's 45-billion-U.S.-dollar economic project, the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), about 90 km (55.92 miles) southeast of capital city Bangkok, Reuters reported on Friday.

Huawei, the world's top producer of telecoms equipment and second biggest maker of smartphones, claimed that it is currently the industry's only vendor that can provide end-to-end 5G systems.

The company said it has secured more than 30 commercial 5G contracts globally.

In addition to the test bed, Huawei is in talks with local telecoms operations, such as Advanced Info Service Pcl and TRUE, to secure local partnerships ahead of a national rollout scheduled for December 2020, Reuters reported, citing anonymous industry sources.

Backlash faced by Huawei

The U.S. has been pressuring its allies to resist Huawei for what is claimed security reasons although the company has repeatedly denied the allegation from the U.S. of spying for the Chinese government.

“We keep a close watch on the allegations worldwide. However, this 5G test bed project is a testing period for the country,” Thailand's Minister of Digital Economy Pichet Durongkaveroj was quoted as saying by Reuters. “We can make observations which will be useful to either confirm or disconfirm the allegations.”

In a rare interview last month, Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, said his company would “never damage the interests of clients,” and the Chinese government has never asked for “inappropriate information.”

Cybersecurity has been made into a “political and maybe ideological issue” which is “not fair” for a technology company, Huawei Thailand said in a statement to Reuters on Friday.

The Chinese government has called for open and fair competition for Chinese tech companies, including Huawei.

When Australia banned Huawei from supplying equipment for a 5G mobile network last August, China described the move an “ideological prejudice” and urged Australia to provide a fair competitive environment for Chinese companies' operations.

Thailand's 5G plan

Thailand's 5G technology alliance in test bed laboratories and field trials was established to promote 5G infrastructure adoption by 2020, which has been a critical national agenda to achieve the Digital Thailand vision, Bangkok Post reported in November.

In addition to Huawei, the alliance includes Ericsson, Qualcomm, Intel, Nokia, major local telecom operators and the Thai Federation of ICT Technology Association, the report said.

Vendors like Nokia, Ericsson and Thai telecoms operators have also set up 5G labs at the test site in Chonburi, Reuters reported.

Pichet said that the government believes that 5G tech adoption will be 40 percent cheaper through infrastructure sharing, Bangkok Post reported.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e3467544e32457a6333566d54/index.html

 

[TaiShang]

Jan 24. 2019

Huawei Launches 5G Multi-mode Chipset and 5G CPE Pro


[Beijing, January 24, 2019] Huawei officially launched its 5G multi-mode chipset Balong 5000 today – along with the first commercial 5G device powered by it, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro. Together, these two new products provide the world's fastest wireless connections for your smartphone, your home, the office, and on the go.

Balong 5000 officially unlocks the 5G era. This chipset supports a broad range of 5G products in addition to smartphones, including home broadband devices, vehicle-mounted devices, and 5G modules. It will provide consumers with a brand new 5G experience across multiple scenarios.

"The Balong 5000 will open up a whole new world to consumers," said the CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, Richard Yu. "It will enable everything to sense, and will provide the high-speed connections needed for pervasive intelligence. Powered by the Balong 5000, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro enables consumers to access networks more freely and enjoy an incredibly fast connected experience. Huawei has an integrated set of capabilities across chips, devices, cloud services, and networks. Building on these strengths, as the leader of the 5G era, we will bring an inspired, intelligent experience to global consumers in every aspect of their lives."

Balong 5000: Ushering in the 5G era

Huawei launches the world's first single-chip multi-mode modem

With a small form factor and high degree of integration, Balong 5000 supports 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G on a single chip. It effectively reduces latency and power consumption when exchanging data between different modes, and will significantly enhance user experience in the early stages of commercial 5G deployment. Balong 5000 marks a significant step forward for the Balong series of chipsets.

Balong 5000 is the first chipset to perform to industry benchmarks for peak 5G download speeds. At Sub-6 GHz (low-frequency bands, the main spectrum used for 5G), Balong 5000 can achieve download speeds up to 4.6 Gbps. On mmWave spectrum (high-frequency bands used as extended spectrum for 5G), Balong 5000 can achieve download speeds up to 6.5 Gbps – 10 times faster than top 4G LTE speeds on the market today.

Balong 5000 is also the world's first chipset that supports both standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) network architectures for 5G. With non-standalone, 5G network architecture is built on top of legacy 4G LTE networks, whereas standalone 5G, as the name implies, will have its own independent architecture. Balong 5000 can flexibly meet different user and carrier requirements for connecting devices throughout different stages of 5G development.

Balong 5000 is the world's first multi-mode chipset that supports Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications, providing low-latency and highly reliable solutions for connected vehicles. Huawei's 5G smartphones powered by Balong 5000 will be released at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Huawei 5G CPE Pro: Changing user experiences in home broadband networks

The Huawei 5G CPE Pro achieves a high speed of 3.2 Gbps in live network tests

Powered by Balong 5000, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro supports both 4G and 5G wireless connections. On a 5G network, a 1-GB HD video clip can be downloaded within three seconds, and 8K video can be streamed smoothly without lag. This sets a new benchmark for home CPEs. In addition to homes, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro can also be used by small and medium-sized enterprises for super-fast broadband access.

Adopting new Wi-Fi 6 technology, the Huawei 5G CPE Pro delivers speeds of up to 4.8 Gbps. It is the first 5G CPE that supports HUAWEI HiLink protocols, bringing smart homes into the 5G era.

As a 5G pioneer, Huawei began research and development in 5G as early as 2009, and is currently the industry's only vendor that can provide end-to-end 5G systems. Huawei has more than 5700 engineers dedicated to 5G R&D, including over 500 5G experts. In total, Huawei has established 11 joint innovation centers for 5G solutions worldwide.

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2019/huawei-launches-5g-multi-mode-chipset-and-5g-cpe-pro/

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